Community Calendar

The monthly ”All You Can Eat” community breakfast sponsored by Lancaster Union Lodge #88 A.F. & A.M. will be held on Saturday, March 9th from 8-10 am at the Lodge building located at 48 North Main Street in Kilmarnock. The breakfast is held the 2nd Saturday of each month and features eggs, sausage, blueberry pancakes, cheese grits, potatoes, sausage gravy, biscuits, juice and coffee. The cost is $6.00 per person (children 5 and under are free) and the public is invited. Lodge fund raisers benefit local charities including the ”Little Angels” and VA Child I.D. program.

Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins! Plan to keep the hour’s sleep by worshiping with the members of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (LCMS), Callao, on “Slow Time,” at 9 am. You’ll be welcome! DON’T CHANGE your clocks Saturday night; come to worship on “Slow Time,” and immediately after services everyone will move their watches ahead one hour to “Fast Time” (DST). For more information: Pastor Mike Ramming 804-456-6554.

Adoption Day at the Northumberland County Animal Shelter in Horsehead between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The shelter has an abundance of beautiful cats and dogs just waiting for you to give them a good home. Please save a life, adopt a shelter pet.

Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Virginia (MPAAGHS) will hold its monthly meeting, 11 a.m. at the Essex County Public Library, 117 North Church Lane (Rt. 17), Tappahannock. All persons who are interested in African-American genealogy and history are invited to attend. Experienced researchers and novices alike are welcome.

President Wayne Lowe and Vice President Wayne Parrish, Fairfields United Methodist Church in Burgess, will be the chief cooks and bottle washers as Fairfields United Methodist Men put on a Corned Beef or Ham and Cabbage Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. in the church social hall. The menu will be: corned beef or ham, cabbage, potatoes, stewed tomatoes, corn bread, dessert and beverage. Price will be “BY DONATION”. For “Take Outs” call 453-2631.

Friends of the Rappahannock and Relish are hosting a “From the Rappahannock, For the Rappahannock” seafood benefit at Relish Restaurant in Tappahannock at 5 p.m. Proceeds will support a partnership with the Virginia Watermen’s Association Tickets include a three-course meal with local wine pairing and are available now at www.riverfriends.org, at June Parker Marina, by calling 443-3448 or visit Relish at 221 Prince Street.

The Northern Neck Audubon Society will conduct a bird walk at Hughlett Point Natural Area Preserve and Dameron Marsh in Northumberland County. Please call Frank Schaff at 462-0084 to let him know that you are coming in case the walk is cancelled.

The Riverside Tappahannock Hospital Volunteers Services group has partnered with “Books Are Fun” to host a sale in the hospital rotunda from 7:30 am until 4 pm. Books Are Fun supplies innovative, premium quality products at savings of up to 80 percent off retail prices. All proceeds from the sale go to the RTH Make a Difference Fund.

Rappahannock Concert Association will present Trio con Brio Copenhagen in concert at 7:30.p.m. in the Northumberland High School auditorium. The Trio’s program for the March 11 concert includes two selections written for and dedicated to Trio con Brio Copenhagen–Phantasmagoria by Bent Sorenson and Trio Breve by Per Norgard. Piano Trios by Maurice Ravel and Felix Mendelssohn will complete the program. For more information, call 472-3396 or 580-4541.

The monthly ”All You Can Eat” community breakfast sponsored by Lancaster Union Lodge #88 A.F. & A.M. will be held on Saturday, March 9th from 8-10 am at the Lodge building located at 48 North Main Street in Kilmarnock. The breakfast is held the 2nd Saturday of each month and features eggs, sausage, blueberry pancakes, cheese grits, potatoes, sausage gravy, biscuits, juice and coffee. The cost is $6.00 per person (children 5 and under are free) and the public is invited. Lodge fund raisers benefit local charities including the ”Little Angels” and VA Child I.D. program.

Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins! Plan to keep the hour’s sleep by worshiping with the members of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (LCMS), Callao, on “Slow Time,” at 9 am. You’ll be welcome! DON’T CHANGE your clocks Saturday night; come to worship on “Slow Time,” and immediately after services everyone will move their watches ahead one hour to “Fast Time” (DST). For more information: Pastor Mike Ramming 804-456-6554.

Adoption Day at the Northumberland County Animal Shelter in Horsehead between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The shelter has an abundance of beautiful cats and dogs just waiting for you to give them a good home. Please save a life, adopt a shelter pet.

Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Virginia (MPAAGHS) will hold its monthly meeting, 11 a.m. at the Essex County Public Library, 117 North Church Lane (Rt. 17), Tappahannock. All persons who are interested in African-American genealogy and history are invited to attend. Experienced researchers and novices alike are welcome.

President Wayne Lowe and Vice President Wayne Parrish, Fairfields United Methodist Church in Burgess, will be the chief cooks and bottle washers as Fairfields United Methodist Men put on a Corned Beef or Ham and Cabbage Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. in the church social hall. The menu will be: corned beef or ham, cabbage, potatoes, stewed tomatoes, corn bread, dessert and beverage. Price will be “BY DONATION”. For “Take Outs” call 453-2631.

Friends of the Rappahannock and Relish are hosting a “From the Rappahannock, For the Rappahannock” seafood benefit at Relish Restaurant in Tappahannock at 5 p.m. Proceeds will support a partnership with the Virginia Watermen’s Association Tickets include a three-course meal with local wine pairing and are available now at www.riverfriends.org, at June Parker Marina, by calling 443-3448 or visit Relish at 221 Prince Street.

The Northern Neck Audubon Society will conduct a bird walk at Hughlett Point Natural Area Preserve and Dameron Marsh in Northumberland County. Please call Frank Schaff at 462-0084 to let him know that you are coming in case the walk is cancelled.

The Riverside Tappahannock Hospital Volunteers Services group has partnered with “Books Are Fun” to host a sale in the hospital rotunda from 7:30 am until 4 pm. Books Are Fun supplies innovative, premium quality products at savings of up to 80 percent off retail prices. All proceeds from the sale go to the RTH Make a Difference Fund.

Rappahannock Concert Association will present Trio con Brio Copenhagen in concert at 7:30.p.m. in the Northumberland High School auditorium. The Trio’s program for the March 11 concert includes two selections written for and dedicated to Trio con Brio Copenhagen–Phantasmagoria by Bent Sorenson and Trio Breve by Per Norgard. Piano Trios by Maurice Ravel and Felix Mendelssohn will complete the program. For more information, call 472-3396 or 580-4541.